After recently moving into his grandmother's house in the countryside, Shinichi is bored with everything despite his success as a novelist. That is, until one day, when a young girl with a stray cat appears at his doorstep. A girl with a very tragic look in her eyes...
Disguised as a girl, she suppresses her passion for ballet, the art form she fervently loves.
In a Japan laid to waste by a meteorite strike, two survivors, Habane and Saku, travel the desolate landscape in a lone 4x4. They have a single goal: to journey south to a place where they can finally see the Southern Cross in the night sky. But their path is far from easy, as every person they encounter on the road is more eccentric, unpredictable, and dangerous than the last... (Source: Kodansha, translated)
Minato Usami is a high-school girl with a new little brother from her father\'s remarriage. Having high expectations after being told that her new brother is an adorable little boy, Koushirou, said little brother, turns out to be a little different than she imagined.
My motto is “continue as you are”. What will my precious life become once it starts to change?
Kohaku is a girl who spent her junior high school years as a loner and dreams of living a fulfilling life in high school. However, on her first day of school she falls down the stairs and ends up hospitalized for a month! This means that everyone besides her has already formed a group of friends at school... In order to avoid being a loner, she summons up the courage and calls out to the only odd-numbered group in her class, but it seems that they are high up in the school caste system, and are actually involved in a blood-splattered love triangle with a non-human...! A high tension high school comedy about escaping being the class loner!
Makoto Nozawa: 77 years old, lives alone, favourite food: curry. Just your standard, slightly eccentric old woman… Except for the fact that she's targeted by assassins everyday, and everyday she gives it back to them threefold. A humorous action story about the strongest old woman in history.
The "apartment comedy with laughs and tears" centres on a 4-year-old boy named Satou Kotarou, who moves next door to Karino Shin, an unsuccessful manga artist. Kotarou has no parents and lives alone. Not only does he seem to earn a living, he actually seems more put together than his own strange neighbours.
Having learned sushi making from internet videos, a boy hailing from Hawaii is on the verge of succeeding one of Japan's most renowned sushi chefs.
Ao-ko Nagisa is a brand new teacher. She's posted to a tiny island on the edge of Japanese territory called Kotoko Island, 30 HOURS by boat from Tokyo. The island is so small there are only five students at the school. Everday becomes an adventure as Ao-ko gets to know her students, the other islanders and the island itself (including dolphins and other assorted wildlife.)
The story centres on Suu-chan, a girl who works part-time at a pasta restaurant named "Lamp." She witnesses mysterious events while riding her moped in the night, such as the past of a person or place. She can only experience these visions five minutes at a time. A loose sequel to PositioN.
Can a poem save your life?Words are powerful. Insults and rumors can derail a career; a bit of encouragement can give someone the strength to pursue their dreams. When a high school boy skipping class to sketch shoe designs and a taciturn woman drinking a morning beer meet in a Tokyo park, they say little, but the woman bids farewell with an ancient tanka poem. Will the boy figure out the poem's meaning and its corresponding response before it's too late?